Identifier: inbrightestsumme00robb (find matches)
Title: In brightest summer land
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Robbins, E. L Old Colony Railroad Company Fall River Line
Subjects: Massachusetts -- Description and travel
Publisher: (Boston) Issued by the Passenger Dept. of the Old Colony railroad and Fall-River line
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ly strewn with pebbly shingle, and again gleaming with hard-pressed sand crystals, appeared the setting for purest and finestemerald gems, so green were the grassy carpets and foliage massesabove them. The great gulls circled in mid-air, or skimmed the sur-faces with keen eyes piercing the water depths, occasionally dippingfor a capture, or screaming their wild notes as they competed for float-ing prizes. The whole harbor was alive with sailing-craft, their wingsspread to catch the breezes which came in light flaws and conflictingcurrents. The passenger steamers plying to and from the islands andbeaches and pleasure resorts, or freighted with humanity from theoutlying shore villages, sped like swift messengers over courseswhose smoothness was like that of glass. The water mirrored every-thing above or upon it; and in the shallow spots darting fishes,big-mouthed sculpins, slow-moving lobsters and crabs, squirming eels,and flounders which appeared like flattened crusts along the bottom,
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i8 animated its depths. Of all that could render a July day superla-tively attractive, and that in ways which must seem to a novice theresult of enchantment and fairy-land influences, nothing was wantingto the experience. So thought Fritz, who divided his consciousness between thescenes about him, the descriptions of his host, and the companion athis side. So thought the Missourian, who had become thoroughlyalive to the situation, and was beginning to discover that he hadchanged worlds. So thought Malcolm, who could never resist underany circumstances the charms of the region he knew and loved sowell. Of what Miss Elizabeth was thinking the reader can imagineas well as anyone. The faintest suggestion of a ground-swell heaving in from the openocean was perceptible as the yacht neared Windmill Point andapproached Hull Landing; and this, like other experiences of the dayphenomenal to Uncle Gyp, quite puzzled him. During the trip hehad more than once half unconsciously lowered a finger ti

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